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Hello Transform Alumni!


We hope you are enjoying your summer so far. We are still celebrating your awesome accomplishments! Please read on for a few alumni-themed housekeeping items.

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Understanding critical race theory


Edmund Fong explains what this theory is and is not, shedding light on the current debate over this approach to understanding systemic racism.

MAGNIFYING: Kimberly Jew


Dr. Kimberly Jew (Ethnic Studies and Theatre) has been featured in the College of Fine Arts' The Finer Points blog! Get to know our associate professor and her research at the U.

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Irving K. Zola Emerging Scholar Award


Dr. Lezlie Frye has won the 2020 Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies for her paper Cripping the “Crack Baby” Epidemic: A Feminist Genealogy.

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Indigenous students in STEM


Associate Professor Hokulani K. Aikau is helping develop strategies to increase STEM engagement in Indigenous communities.

Student voices leading to structural change


Learn how an open dialogue helped create the U’s School for Cultural and Social Transformation.

We did it!


Marking our second participation in U Giving Day, together, we were able to raise a total of $9,905. Thank you for your continued support!

Enriching the Narrative


Darius Bost, associate professor of Ethnic Studies, shares his experience researching to examine the confluence of activism and literature during the AIDS epidemic in the latest release of University of Utah Magazine.

Scary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers


“The Witches,” a film in which Anne Hathaway’s character has disfigured hands, has resurfaced the debate over depicting evil as disabled.

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Utah Women’s Mural


Dean Stockton can be seen in a new SLC mural by Jann Haworth that honors inspirational Utah women for the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment's ratification.

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